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Chemistry
Of Artificial Radiation and Natural Genius: The Chemistry of Irène Joliot-Curie (Women In Science 29)
Radioactivity is a great thing. Terrible, but great. The medical applications of radioactively tagged molecules, as Rosalyn Yalow proved,…
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Biology
Unearthing the World Jurassic: Mary Anning and the Founding of Paleontology (Women In Science 28)
As the tide rolls out, a woman in a hardened bonnet and loose fitting clothes scrambles across the crumbling cliffs…
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Chemistry
Queen of Carbon: The Ongoing Materials Science Legacy Of Mildred Dresselhaus (Women In Science 27)
Carbon. Its astounding versatility is matched only by our total and historic complacency in the face of its wonders.…
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Biology
Adventures in Chimpland: The Primatology Revolution of Jane Goodall. (Women in Science 26)
Of all the figures I’ve done on Women In Science this year, none have evoked such instant and unequivocal expressions…
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Biology
Saving Oceans by Saving Otters: The Marine Conservation of Sandrine Hazan (Women in Science 25!)
The southern sea otter is the white knight of the Pacific Coastal ecosystem. In an ocean threatened by the ravenous…
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Events
A Tale of Physics, Betrayal, and Art: The World Premiere of Delicate Particle Logic
It has been 70 years since nuclear fission co-discoverer Lise Meitner was passed over for the Nobel Prize, and for…
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Comic
Trades… Of… Science! FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics, Volume 1.
Quantum tornados, localized time dilation, and fluctuating gravity are the workaday business of the Federal Bureau of Physics, a governmental…
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Biology
The Secret Life of Hormones: Rosalyn Yalow and the Discovery of Radioimmunoassaying
There’s an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our twisting cleverness for developing better and better…
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